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The Upper Cumberland needs jobs

Posted
Tuesday, June 19, 2018 11:00 am

The headline on Friday, June 15, said it all: "Fitzgerald Cutting Jobs." Just what we need in the U.C., the dirt people. Tree hugger environmentalists have succeeded in their mission to stifle jobs by forcing Fitzgerald to cut back production by 90% from 3000 trucks that have been refurbished with rebuilt diesel engines to 300 per year. Naturally the company will have to lay off workers.

These people have families to support. A perfectly legitimate study by TTU concluded that the engines met EPA standards. The EPA concurred. Fitzgerald boomed. Jobs were created. Then up stepped those nasty environmentalists to complain.

This action seems almost criminal and should be settled so that Fitzgerald can once again thrive. The U.C. needs and wants those jobs.